Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Power forwood or Evil It? Content! I 'r???? MayWiold. > i . ?-? JDr ri'ftlmnRe DlaqouracN on Innucnoe? i Drought to Hour' for AVoiia'n ' Jj^u pr o voguent-Xlie InUUoru [Copyright. W?'.-,by Loul? Klopsen,'N. Y.] V^M(?V:V/v??>Vae?ilpgtO>i. M?\ich 17. I In a now way nnd fromupcoiilhir toxt Dr. To^ago^iHuaur^op pi pood influ oncoB^'ou^htitb boarder tho world's improvement. Tho'text ia Ezekiel 0:2: ?"And ono ?ian among tliom was clothed with Huon, with a writer's ink hom by hin nido." . Tho poom from which my text in taken is opie, lyric, dramatic, weird and overpowering. It ?B moro tkuu Hom orlo or Dantesque, No ono over had suoh divine dreams'na Ezekiel. In a viBlon.this prophet had seen wrath ful angela, destroying angela, euch ?with a sword, but in my text ho seca a moroiful u?gol with an' inkhorn. fThe receptado for tho ink In olden /th lo^was^ mado fout pf tho horn of ? tow or'a rain or a r?obuck, OH now it la mado' out of metal or glass, and 'thoreforo was called tho inkhorn, as now wo say inkstand. Wo hnvo all Bpoken of tho power of tho sword, of .tho power of wealth, of tho power of office, of tho po wer of social 'influence, but tooday I speak of tho power for good or ^pvll in tho inkstand. It is upon youx* tabl?n; holding u Mack or bluo t?r rod liquid; It is a fortress, an armory,' a'gateway, a ransom or a demolition. "You mistnkc," says Bomo one; "lt is tho pen that has tho p?wor." No my friend. What is tho influence of a dry pcii? Pass it up and down" a shoot of paper, and it leavos tio mark. It expresses no opinion. It gives no warning. It spreads no intel ligence. It is tho liquid which tho poa dips out of the inkstand that does tho work. .Jlero and thcro a celebrated pon, with which a Declaration of Inde pendence or a Magna Charta or a troay was Signed han been kept in lit erary mus?um or national archives, but for tho ' most part tho lions, whether, as of old, mado out.of reed or Still l&^V.'cf wing of--bird or still later of metalllo substance, havo disap-' poarcd, whilo tho liquid which tho {sens took from tho inkstand remains n Borolls which, if put togo thor, would be largo enough to enwrap tho Worldf For practical, for moral, for religious, for" ctornar purposes, J ?peak of tho mission of "the writer's inkhorn." First;''X mention that which is puro ly domestic.1 Tho inkstand is in overy household. ; It "awaits tho opportunity to express affection or'condolence or advico. Father ?ses it; mother uses it; tho sons and daughters uso it. It .tells tho"*l?omo nows; it announces tho murringo, tho birth, tho departure, tho accident, tho last sickness, tho death. That homo inkstand, what a mission it has already executed, and what other mission will it yet fulfill) May lt'stand off from nil insincerity and all querulousness. Let it tell only that which it would bo well to rend after tho hand that wroto it and the hand that, received it can write no more. Dlp.oirt of .that inkstand only that which ?B paternal, maternal, fllial, elstor?y,'^brotherly. Saorcd let it be not to what aro^spmotimcs called tho ^'housohold^gMsV? but to tho ono and tim only God Wljo "scttoth tho solitary in families^" C;Dlp 'out of it solace for parental; on tho descending grade of years^an'd ^.oncbiiragoment for those who aro climbing, tho steeps. ' Furthermore,'tho inkstand of the business mari'bas its mission, lio tween now and' the hour' of your de mise, O commercial ' mun, O profes sional man,.there will hot bo a doy whonyy^ou'.oa?n'ot dip from tho ink horn a xhessugo "that " will influence temporal and eternal destiny. Thero Id a rash young man running into Wild sp?culation, and with as much ink na you can put on tho pen nt one tipari ypumay Bavo him from tho Niag?roVppldft of a ruined life. On the next street there is a young man ntnvtod hi business who, through lack of patronago or mistako in purchase ?Of goods or want of adaptation, is on the brink of collapse. One Une of ink from your pen will save him from boing.^an Undorling all Iiis, lifo and ?tart him on''a* career that will win him ?'fortuno which will enable him to beoomo an endowcr of libraries, an opener of art galleries and builder of churches. ' Furthermore, great aro tho re sponsibilities of. tho author's inkhorn. All tho po?p'lo, or nearly all tho people, road, and that which they toad dooidos their morals or im moral s, their prosperity or failure, their * faith pr their unbelief, their purltj&^?r ;Wr?iption,. thoir hcavon or hoil?^ ?h'oNV* mo any man's library, great or'small, and after examining the books, Anding thoso with leaves uncut* byifc displayed for sake of tho binding, and thoso worn with fre quent, perusal, and, without ovor see ing Che man or knowing his name, I will toll you his likes and his dis likes; his morals, good or bad or in different; his qualification for busi ness or artistic or professional or mechanical lifo. Tho best ihdox to any man's character is tho book ho prefers above all others. Oh, the power of a book for good or evil I Abraham Lincoln in carly lifo read Paine's "Age of Reason," and it so Influenced him that ho wrote an es say against Christian!ty, but after ward flomo Christian books carno into his hands and gloriously changed his roi nd and mado him a most ardent .friend of?the.?Biblo and a mon of prayer.. Ariottei in Mr. Lincoln's own 'handwriting ia in my house, the 'lot ter in responso to somo resolutions passed by a Methodist conference, ?nylngi "In rosponao to your ad dress, allow mo to attest thc nc ?.?' ' i ? i i - Burnod to Doath. Joff Hill, his wifo and fivo ohildron woro burnod to doath, They lived in a log houao wost of / Wollstoni Olj?o. About 9 o'olool? whon . tho family was asloop thokitohon oaught tho wholo housoM?s .ft'?o.n in .fiamos. Whon thoi noighbors?iuiri?d'to'tDionssistanoo, thoy saw through tho;open door, tho Oharrod romains- of tho, family. Will Hill was 50 and was a well known mino workor. Tho ooronor at onoo hold an inquost and found that tho Uro started from a stovo, which was near to tho only door to tho homo and osoapo was thoroforo out off, ? Hill was almost blind sud prac tically* bdjlpl???. Humano Mill Mon. Tho roprosontatlvofl, of 160 obtton mills in North Carolina havo ogreod that nrjohild undor-10 years shall bo pormittod to work in tho mills in any olroumstanoo. nor. in any oapaoity ; that no ohjud undor^ i%\ years, oxoopt tho ohild of a w*$QW or of aflliotod paronts, should%^rmJ.ttc$ to>ork in tho mijls during '-tho *torm of av'ailablo sohool; that tho mills will do all in thoir powor to promotopublio nohools. ?ura?y" 6* its historical St?t?t??iit?, ?ntlorso tho sontlmonta lt oxprossos und thanh; you in tho nation's nnmo for tho suro promls? it gives. Nobly unstained ns the govornmoiit lins been by all tho churches, I would 'utter nothing which might in tho ?of,5t jjjt?jf? ?jiyidi?tis ?galv.it ??y. Yot without this it may fulrly bo unid that tho Methodism Episcopal church, not less dovotcd than tho besV is by its grca? numbers tho most-Important of all. It is no fault in others that tho Methodist church Bonds moro soldiers to tho Held, moro nurses to tho hospital and moro prayers to Heaven than any. God bless tho Methodist church-bless all tho churches-and blessed .bo Clod who lu, this our great trial givoth us tho churches." "What rt great thing it,was that tho Christian books which Mr. Lincoln road obliterated fromhls mind the infl dol literature 1 "William Carey became cv missionary by reading "Tho Voyages of Captain . Cook." John Wesley's Ufo was shaped by reading Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Living and .Dying." There aro books in your library or ly ing on your parlor tablo or sccrotcd in some iliaco by your child that will decido for two worlds, this and tho noxt, tho character of its reader. Through books we sit down and talk with tho mlghtiost spirits of all tho tges. Wo accompany Tennyson on his spring-tlmo walk as ho falls upon his knees in tho meadows, crying to his companioni "Violots, man, violets 1 Smell them." Or. wo rido with Trajan in his triumphal march, or stand with Godti'cy at tho taking of Jerusalem, or with arotlo explorer hear tho crash of tho Icebergs, or aro received with Hornnudo Cortes in tho halls of Montezuma, or watch In tho observa tory as Herschel with his telcsoopo capture's unoth .. ar, or tho ink in tho Inkhorn turns rod ns blood, and wo aro at Marengo and Arbola and Eyliiu nnd Borodino and Leipsio; or Wo sall with Hamilcar from Carthago to Palermo, or we see Galileo lighting for tho solar system, and around xi? gather for conversation Aristotlo and Plato and Robert South and Sydney Smith and Locke nnd Samuel Hogers and Chaucer and Paul Richter and Swift and Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt and Talleyrand nnd Burko mid Edward Irving, whilo to mako music for xis Handel and Mozart and Mendelssohn como iii, and wc watch Columbus land ing and seo John Harvard's legacy of ''.OOO paid ovor for tho founding of Harvard university, and Joshua ltcj' nolds and David Wilkio and Rem brandt tell xis - of their pictures. Oh, tho books 1 Thank God for tho books, and thanks bo to all tho authors! May tho inkhorn ever be under divino inspiration! A wrong theory is abroad that tho newspaper impression is ephemeral, because wo rend and east it asido in an hour and never seo it again wo aro not to" judgo that wc aro parted from its influence. No volume of 500 pages makes such impression xipon tho pco plo as Iho daily newspaper. It is not what wo put away carefully upon tho shelf and once in awhile refer to thnt luis as closo relation to o ar wei faro OB tho story of what tho world ia now doing or has rccontly done. Yes tcrdny has moro to do with to-day than something occurring a century provious. Tho engineers who now guide thc rail trains; tho sea captains who now command thc ships, tho ar chitects who now design tho build ings, tho batons that now control tho orchestras, tho legislators who now make the laws, thc generals who now march tho hosts, tho rulers who now govern tho nations, tho Inkhorns that now flood tho world with intelligence -theso are what wo have most to do with. You have all seen what is called Indelible ink, which is a weak solu tion of silver nitrate, and that ink you cannot rub out or wash out. Put it there, and it stays. "Well, tho liquid of tho editorial and reportorial Inkstands is on indelible Ink. It puts upon tho souls of tho passing gener ations characters of light or dark ness that timo cannot wash out and eternity cannot efface. Forcvor in delible. 13c careful how you xiso it. Tho impression muda with it will be resplendent or repulsivo on the day for which all other days wero mado. Hut how shall 1 speak of tho ink horn of tho world's ovnngcllzatlon ? Oh, how may loving and brilliant and glorious jiens hnvo -been dipped into it! Thomas a Kempis dipped into it and brought tip his "Imitation of Christ." Horneo Bushnell dipped into it and brought up "Every Mon's Lifo a Plan of God." Thomas Binney dipped into it and brought up his "Weigh Houso Chapel Discourses." Conybcaro dipped into it and brought up tho "Lifo and Epistles of Paul." Archbishop Trench dipped into it and brought up tho "Epistles to thc Seven Churches." Stuart Robinson dipped into lt and brought up "Discourses of Redemption." Austin Phelps dipped into it and brought up "Tho Still Hour." Mary Hopkins dipped into it and brought xip "Evidences of Chris tianity." Thomas Guthrio dipped into it and brought up "Thc Gospel in Ezoklcl." John Cumming dipped into lt and brought up '.'Tho Apocalypse" Oh, tho opulence of Christian litera ture! Oh, tho mighty streams of evan gelistic power that have poured from the writer'* inkhorn that appeared in iCzcklol's vision I Whilo you recognize tho distin guished ones who hnvo dipped into tho inkstand of tho world's ovangoliza tioh do not forget that there aro hun dreds of thousands of unknown men and women who nro engaged in in conBplouoxis ways doing tho same thing! I tow many anxious mothers writing to tho boys in town! How many stators writing encoiu-ngement t?'brothors far away! How many in valids bolstered up in bed, the inkhorn on tho stand nt their side, writing let tors of condolence to those worse off than themselves! They aro flying ali Doath of Jitd#o Wallace. Judgo William H. Wallaoo, Spoakcr of tho Wallago HOUBO in 1876, diod at his homo in Union Thursday of an attack of grip, Ho had boon ill, but was UP again and thought to ho doing niooly when ho suddenly passed away. Ho had boon cxpooting doath for sumo timo and said so. It will bo a groat griof 1 and sorrow to many hoarts to loam of hisdomiso. Too muoh praiso and honor oannot bo bostoward upon tho man who sorvod his Stato so woll. Tho town of Union is mourning, as will all South Carolina, whon it is known that this noblo Carolinan is no moro. Two Killod. Doputy Marshall Alex. S. Whitoly was killod in attempting to arrest Lon Soott for illicit distilling in Linooln county, Ga., Thursday. Scott was also killed. Tho officor with his rosso found tho distillers in a harricadod houso and in attempting to mako tho arrosts a fight onouod. Several othors of tho pOB?oVoro hurt but not eoriously. The othor mombors of tho Soott crowd wcro arrested. \ ?he timo itltid w?rda, goapol word^ helpful words, suvhig words. Call th? evangelistic Jukhoro. Into servi?o,. iii", tho curly morning, when you fool well lind you oro grateful for tho proteo* tioH during your Bleeping hour?, und Nvrlto boforo you retire ut closo of day fr? ?limm who all uitrht loiur will bo say ing: "Would to (Jod it woro morn ingt" liow.mn.ny bruised und disap pointed und wronged noola of earth would bo glad to got a lotter from youl Stir up that consolatory inkhorn. All Christendom lins- been .walting for groat revival? of religion to start from tho pulpits and pruyor moot-, lags. I now suggest thi\t tho groatost rovival of all timo may (start a concerted and organized movement through the inkhorns of all Christendom, each writer dip ping from tho inkhoru nearest him a letter of gospel invitation, gospel hope, gospel Warning, gospel in struction. , Tim ink is ull ready on n hundred thousand tables, and besido it aro the implements with which to dip it out. Why not, through such (roecss, luivo millions of souls brought o Clod hoforo next summer? By lot ter you could ma ko tho invitation .moro effective than by word of mouth. Tho invitation from your lips may bo argued back, may evoke quorulous reply, may bo answered by a joke, but a good, warm, gospel lotter, written in prayer and started with prayer end followed by prayor, will bo rend over and over uga in and cannot bo un ?werod in a frivolous way. It will speak from thc tablo by day and night orf if pettishly torn up, will, in ita scattered fragments, speak louder than when it remained wholo. "Within nrm's reach of whero you sit thcro may bo a fluid that you may put on wing with message of light and love. Tito othor angols spoken of in my text woro destroying angels, and each had what tho l?iblo calls a "slaugh ter weapon" fu his hand. It was a Innoo or a battloax or a sword. God hasten tho timo when tho last lanco shall bo shivered and tho last hat tleax dulled and tho last sword sheathed, never again to leovo tho scabbard, and tho angel of tho text, .who, Matthew Henry says, was tho Lord Jesus Christ, shall, from tho full inkhorn of His mercy, givo a cav ing call to all nations. That day may be far off, but it is helpful to think of its coming. As Ur. Raleigh de clared that whoa CO miles at sea off tho const of New England tho cattlo on board tho ship, ns well ns himself, scented tho clover on tho New Knglnud hills, so wo, nmid all tho tossing waves of tho world's con troversies, inhale tho redolence of tho whlto lilies of Universal peace. IA it not time that tho boasted inven tion of new and moro explosivo and moro widely devastating weapons of death bo stopped forever and tho Gospel hayo a chanco and tho ques tion be not asked: "How many shots can bo fired in a minuto?" but "How many souls may bo ransomed in a day? Tho world needs less powder and moro grace, fewer fortresses and moro churches, less power to destroy and moro power to save. Oh, I am sick of tho war cries and tho extin guished eyesight and tho, splintered bones and tho grave trenches and the widowhood and orphanago and childlessness which sob nnd groan and dio in tho wake of tho armies on both sides of tho seal Oh, for less of tho slaughter weapon and moro of the evangelizing inkhorn! Oh,. for tho stopping of tho sotanee of ^assassination, that crlmo of crimes, that woo of woes, that horror of hor rors, that hell of hells-war, which this moment stands reeking with blood and washing itself in tears and blaspheming tho heavens and pushing off tho edgo of this lifo men who. have as much right to live os you and I have and blasting homes in which there dwells ns much loveli ness as in our own! Would that tho merciful angel of my text take tho lost weapon of war and fling it off nnd fling it down with ouch force that it shall clang on tho lo wost round of tho perdition whero thu first koon edgo of human strife was sharpened I War! In tho nnmo of Almighty God and of all tho homo* steads it has destroyed and is now destroying, I hate it, I denounce it, I curso it! If our Iliblo is true-and no other book that was ever printed is as truo as that book, which Moses bo gati and John finished-then tho timo will como when nil the weapons of cruelty will stop and thc inkhorna of cvnngcli/ation will havo their way, In tho museums of tho world tho corblno and the cannon and tho bomb will bo kept ns curiosities, and chil dren will bo incredulous as parents tell them that civilized nations once employed such instruments of death and moro incredulous when told by their parents that tho army that killed tho most men was considered tho most glorioun army. Thc red horse of carnage that St. John saw in vision, and tho black horse of famine, and tho pale hors? of death will be stabled, and tho white horse of prosperity and peace, mounted by tho King of Kings, will lead tho great army with banners. Through tho convicting, converting, sanctify ing power of tho Eternal Spirit may wo all march in that procession! Hail, thou Mighty Rider of tho 'whlto horso in tho final triumph! Sweep down and sweep by, thou Angel of tho New Covenant, with tho inkhorn of tho world's evangelization! "Th* mountains and tho hills shall break forth into singing, and nil tho trees of the field shall clap thoir hands. Instead of tho thorn nhnll como up tho fir tree, and Instead of tho brier ?hal como up tho myrtle treo and lt shall bo to tho Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not bo out off." Cold Coffee for Oooicfo*. Mix ginger cookies with cold coffee instead of wator; it will improve them. India's Population. Oomploto consus roturas givo tho population of Indra as 294,000,000. an inoroa?o in tho last dooado of 7,000, 000. Doduotiog tho population of tho Baluolstan, Shaustaks, Oliinhills and. Sikkim territory, onumoratod for tho first timo, a not inoroaao ia shown of only 1.1 por cont, which is duo to im proved oonsus methods. Thus, tho population ia for tho first timo statio nary. Owing to tho two faminon, mor i tality from disoaso and a groat doolino in tho birth rato, tho nativo Slatos I shows exooBsivo doolines. Thoso results I woro quito nnoxpeotod. A Negro Ponsi?n?r. Oomptrollor Oonoral Borham Friday roooivod a lotter from Abbovillo oounty, protesting against a negro drawing a pondon in that county. Mr. Borham said tho nogro had boon plaood on tho ponsion rollin 1897 by tho Abbovlllo oountry pension board and tho records showed ho had boon a good and faithful ;Oonfodorat o soildiOr andwa* entitled to tho ponsion. Ho will continuo to draw his ponsion, dospito tho littlo-minded protost. v,.;.:.-.,w..^..,V.//:.v^^ OUR DEAD HEROES. I'o?ntinuod from pago V] tho 10th South Carolina' rogimont, ty rewritten uianusoript. 3. Skotoh of 10th and 19th South Carolina regiments, Gon Ellison C?pors foi AOjuluui G o no rai o? South Oaro liua, 4. Skotoh of 15th aud 2ith South Carolina reginionts, by Goa Kllieon Capers. 5. Skotoh of Oulpoppoi'n battery. G. Bolls of 19th and ,24th South Carolina regiments and Culpoppor's battory--tho rolla of Korshaw's brigado hoing in Capt bicker t's book and of 10th South Carolina . regiment.in Col Walker's book, . 7. Comm mission s as followst OomrnissionB appointed under authority of tho Slato of ?outh Carolina to looato pcaitioDS of South Carolina troops, and to oroot a monument and markois to tho s&mo, on tho battlefield of Ohiokamauga. Kirnt commission, to locate positions of South Carolina ?troops, visited tho battlefield. May 18th, 1894, and looat od tho position thereof: Gen Hugh L. darloy, Adjutant and InBpootor Qontral, South Carolina; Mujer C. K. llondorson, OaptE. J. Go^gans, M?jor. J. 1). MoLucaS, votorans KorBhaw's brigade GonO. I. Walker, Capt ll. If. MoOaalau, L P. Harling, votorans of 10th and 19th South Carolina rogi monts. OaptThosJ. Appleby, votcran of 24thSouth Carolina rogimont; Capt J, F. Cul popper, Liout Porry Mosos, yctorans of Culpoppor'e battory. Tho nhovo commission rocommondod that suitahlo monumont and markeri bo oreoted. In ro3ponso thereto tho Scoond commission was appointed under authority of a join resolution of tho Ce nor al Assembly, Dooombcr 22, 1894, to solcot designs and socuro osti matos for said monumont and markora. Gon C. Irvine Walker, Mtjor J. D. MoLuoas, Major 0. K Hondoraon. Tho abovo Bcooud oommision solcot cd dosigns, scoured ostimatoB and ro;_ portod to thc next soasslon of tho Gen eral ABBombly, but no appropriation waa mado. At its Convention of 1899 tho South Carolina Division, United Confodorato Votorans, decided to memorialize tho General Assembly and urgo that proper roBpoot bo ptid sons who fought who fought and who diod at Chick amunga. In responso thoroto tho Third oommisoion was authorised by Goneral Assombly at its sossion of 1900, and an appropriation of $10,000 was mado for tho orootion of said monumont and markois, to bo orootod by tho com mission, at suoh places as it may dooido on. Tho oommission was to oonsist of tho Governor, Adjutant and lnspootor Goneral and thrco Oonfcdorato Vote* rans. It was as follows: ' Governor Milos B. McSwconoy, ohairman; Gon 0. Irvino Walker, eo cfotary, Votorau; Gon J. W. Floyd, Adjutant and Inepcotor Gonoral, South Carolina, Votoran, but appointed ox ofiioio; Major C. K Henderson, Col J, Harvoy Wilson, Votorans. Undor tho supervision of tho abovo third 'oommission tho South Carolina monumont, in tho comer stono of whioh this record is dopositod, was erected. It was dedicated, unvoilcd and turrjod over to tho commissioners of tho ?hhk amau?a and Chattanooga National V >rk this 27th day of ?May, A. J). 19Q . Also woro?rootod tho granitO>fi;^\. it for tho various oommands of^South Carollnans, as follows: Ono to Korshaw's brigado and Ono; to oaoh of its rcgimonts, i. o., 2d, 3d, 7th, 8th and 15th South Carolina rcgimonts, and James's South Carolina Battalion on Snodgrass Bungo. Ono to the 10th and 19tb South Caro lina rogimont on Snodgrass Bange. Ono to tho 24th South Carolina rog imont on tho Kelly farm, near tho Sholl monumont, to Col Oolquitt. Ono to Culpoppor's battory, in tho Poo fiold. All of whioh is duly cortified to hy Milos B. MoSwoonoy, Govornor of South Carolina, and ohairman of tho commission; C. Irvino Walkor, Seoro tury of commission. Tho daughtors of tho Confodoraoy, through Mrs. Thomas Taylor, pioBi dont of South Carolina Divison, havo boon invitod. In accepting Mrs Taylor f ay6: "1 hopo many of us may havo tim distinguished happiness of showing homogo to our soldiory on that oooa aion." It is hopped that all tho D.uightora will attend. A Law Breaking Judge. Tho announcement ha i alroady boon mado in Tho Stato that tho court at Minion was adjournod bcoau?o of tho appoaranoo of a o ?BO of smallpox in a hotel thcro. A Columbian who has just roturned from Marion rcoitcs interest ing details omitted in tho dispatohes. Tho judgo, ho says, was staying at tho hotel in whioh tho suspicious OSBO dovo loped; ho ai o so in tho morning to find tho vigilant health offioor had hoon up ahoad of him, hung out yollow flags, put tho hotel under quarantine and plac ed gua'dfl arounda ^ it, Tho judgo did not relish tho idea of hoing hold a prisoner and ho csoapod from tho house, proocoding to tho depot. Tho sherill' HAS sent to dotain him. This that official oourtoously did and thon transferred his prisonor to tho town marshal. Tho train oamo and wont, and on it wont tho judgo. Tho State's informant says tho marshal was finod $5 for porniitting a piisonor to osoapo.-Columbia State. How's Thisl Wo offor Ono Hundrod Dollars Ho ward for any oaBO of Catarrh that oan not ho ourod by Hall's Catarrh Curo. If. J. OHEN?X; & CO., Props., Tolodo, O. Wo, tho undorsignod, havo known If. J. Chonoy for tho last 15 years, and boliovo him poifoolly honorablo in all busiuo?s transactions, and financially aldo to carry out any obligation .mado by their firm. Wnsr & TBUAX, Wholesalo Drug gist, Toledo, O. WAi.?iNa, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholosalo Druggists, Tolodo. O. Hall's Catarrh Curo is takon internal ly, aoting dirooUy upon tho blood and mucous surfaoos of tho systom. Prico, 75o. por bottlo. Sold by all druggists, Testimonials froo. Hall's Family Pills ?ro tho best, A Foolish Girl. Tho body of May Comstock, who, it is believed, oommittod suioido by jump ing into tho lako at Sixty-third street, Chicago was found Thursday aftornoon buried in tho sand on tho beach noar tho Fifty-ninth strcot pie.'. Tho oauno of tho girl's suioido was tho faot that sho had run into doht to tho extent of 17 and dreaded to ask her father, for monoy. Miss Oomstook was tho daugh ter of John ComiJtookj a rotired fruit growor, formorly a rofliuo.it of Florida and California, but now living at Bon ton Harbor, Tho girl was studying muslo in Ohiongo. TP^PTTAIBLECROP. Broom Oom Brhurs One Hundred Dollars a Ton in Columbia. . Tho Columbia Uooord says tho far mora of South Carolina havo boon urged for many yoara to plant broom oom, v hioh is a vory profilablo orop (Int o tn bo grown toadvantago in mau y ?cotions of this state Ooo trouble liss boon tho distanoo of tho markots, but this is hoing romcdiod by tho ostablishmont of small broom faotorios in this stato. Ono of thoso has boon started in Co lumbia by John ?I. Sims, who thus praoti?ally demonstrates his faith in tho small industries so nooossary to lound out Columbia's prospority. His f aotory is at prosont on Marion stroot, but ho oxpoots to shortly build moro suitablo quartors noar tho Islanding stroot dopot. His factory now turns out about fifteen dozon fino , houso brooms daily. i Mr, C. M. Timmons started a broom factory on Assombly streot, near Lum bor, several yearn ago. lt was bought about ton months ago by Mr. Mooro, who hat beoo B'oadily pushing bia bush noes. Ho turns out a very fiuo pro duct, for whioh thoro is a largo demand, ho having no trouble is solliing all tho brooms ho. oau mako Aooording to tho Yorkvillo Yeoman, Hiram M&sooy, of Tirzah, is tho only man in York county who has tried planting broom corn. Mr. Massoy was in Yorkvilln a day ortwoago and informed tho Yeoman roportor that ho hand just returned from Columbia, whoro ho had sold his lot of croom oom nt $100 a too, oasb. A broom faotory located in Columbia bought tho lot. Tho superintendent of thc faotory scorned sui prised at tho fino quality of this lot of corn, and. inform ?d Mr Massey that he would tako all ho could got ts good at tho samo price. Asked for somo information as to his exporionoo in planting, oultivaticg, oto , Mr. Maesoy said broom corn was little moro trouble than othor corn, se ing cultivated in much tho same way as sorghum, fotiliztng tho samo as for cot ton, Fertilizing of oourso increases tho yiold. That which is intondod for solo, for manufaoturo into brooms, is out Just bolero tho plant ripons, so a.tit ..i.u ",..," :? , }," ",,.".., 1/UC.V AV 1VVMUU LVU^ltUVHU 4M ...vj uticn and a palo greon oolor. It is ncoossary to havo a seod patch, where tho oom is allowed to ripon. That whioh'is out for mark ot is dried and packed into bales of convenient size for shipping. Tho yiold averages a thousand pound? of ourod straw to tho aoro. Somo moro anet somo loss, owing to tho oondition of land, season, fertilization and alton tion givon It is roady for markot in August, af tor two to throo weoks our ing, at tho slackest and dullest season of the) yoar, whon tho farmor has plenty of timo to attend to it, and at a time whon a good money crop would moan a great deal to him. Mr. Massoy is much pleased with broom om, and is unking preparations to plant 25 to 30 acros this year. His suooe ss will doubtless load othor fanners in South Catolina to put somo of thoir land in broom corn, instoad of continuing to bond all thoir energies to raising cotton. CENSUS OF COTTON GUNNING. A yery Importany. Work Undertaken by tho. Cou??? Bureau. Tho Groonvillo Mountaineer says various efforts havo hoon mado to por fejet egonoios for socuring carly and trustworthy information as to tho quan tity of cotton annually grown in tho United Statos, with a viow to rcduoing to a minimum tho fluctuations inoidont to an industry so groatly dopondont upon supply and demand. Statistics of this crop unod in com mercial ocutors havo to do with tho cotton as markoted during oaoh year onding August 31, and uro gathorod I vory largely through reports of trans portation linos touching tho ootton holds. So long at it was safo to as sume that practically tho whole of tho ootton orop roached its markot through tho common e.vrricrs, thoir reports oonsititutod a fairly trustworthy basis for ostimatos of tho commercial orop, but, as much ootton now goes directly from tho holds to tho mills without passing through tho hands of traopor tation companies, this moans of gather ing ojttoii statistics is annually booom ing moro and moro unfatisfaotory. All returns aro mado in oommoroial balos,. whioh is au unsatisfactory unit of meas ure. During tho jast oontury tho average weight ot' tho oommoroial halo moro than doubled. In somo sections tho oottan balo now moans tho square paokego averaging in woight -198 pounds. To othor rogions it moans a balo of d00 pounds, while in still othor localities is found tho round halo aver aging 259 pounds. Nono of tho moans hithorto omployod has roported tho numbor and woight of thoso divers kinds of commercial balos. Tho rela tivo number of square and round balos is ohanging aud with this tho avorago waight of tho ordinary unit, tho oom moroial halo, is hoing modified. Uenoo tho importance of substituting a fixed unit liko a pound for a variabio unit of mcasuro liko a balo, thus enabling tho oountry to know tho aotual quantity of ootton produoad. Believing that tho reports of ootton ginnors, showing tho numbor and aver ago weight of tho bales passing through thoir hands during a givon year, would afford trustworthy statistics, tho United Statos Census Office has by correspon dence and through tho onumorators obtained from caoh giniing ostablish mont of tho oountry a roporb of tho quantity of ootton handlod of tho orop of 1899. Tho attempt to obtain tho statis tiosof tho ootton orop through this agon oy has boon so successful, and tho mo thod premisos to devolop statistics so muoh moro completo aud satisfactory than thoso horotofore adoptod that tho JDirootor of. tho Census has dcoidod to undortako an annual cousus of tho oot ton orop through tho direct cooperation of tho ginnors. Tho suoooss of this annual ootton orop roport must depond, altogothcr upon tho promptnoss and accuracy with which reports aro rooolvod. As tho in formation solioitod is vory largoly for tho benefit of tho cotton ginnors and I ootton growors, it is boliovod 'that tho ginnors will oordially respond to tho I offorts of tho Consus Offioo to rondor thiseorvioo to tho South and to all thoso interested in its groat staple Tho Consus Offioo is now undertaking Obtain tho facts rogar din.; tho cot ten orop of 1900, through blanks mailed to to tho ootton ginnors, Thoso inquires should ho promptly aud soouraloly answoredand returned at onoo in tho frankod < ivclopo, whioh roquiros no postage .Ginnors will not fail to soo that tho suco ess of this inquiry will re dound groatly to their honofit, aod tlioy should ho prompt to roport to tho Bureau tho nam^s and addrossos of now ginning establishments, as well as any ohangos in tho management of old onos, I THE B, Grove's 1 Thc formula i: know just what yoi do not advertise thc their medicine if yo Iron and Quinine pu form. Thc Iron malaria out of the s Grove's is thc Ori? Chill Tonics arc iir that Grove's is su are not experiment and excellence ha only Chill Cure so the United States. OUR OLD HERO EST Confederate Reunions in Colum bia and Memphis D?VI8ION SPONSOR NAMED Official Circulars Issued by Gon or?! Walker In Reference to Both Meetings Tho Railroad Rates. Tho Columbia Stato says on ovory eido tho work of thoso ohargod with tho arraogomonts for tho Stato reunion to bo hold thoro oarly in May is going for ward. Tho looal fiaanoo oommittco has been rocoiviug subscriptions in ro sponeo to its oironlar lottor to tbo oiti zone, and in well satisfiod with tho re sults preliminary to tho oanvass. Tho work of tho oommiltoo ohargod with 11 scouring homes ha3 boon delny od a lot- ]1 tlo, but not materially, by tho siokno6s of tho ohairman, Gol S. W. Vaneo. Bolow is givon tho copy of tho gen oral ordor of Gen. O. I. Walkor, istuod from tho bondquarr.orH of tho South Carolina division Unitod Confed?ralo Votorans, in Charleston, in regard to tho Stato reunion: Conor al Ord or No. 52: 1. Tho Bovonth annual reunion of tho South Carolina division, U. O V., will bo hold at Columbia, S. C., eommonoing Mav 8th, 1901, at 8 p. m. ? largo at tondanoo of eomrados is expeotod, and tho good pooplo of Columbia will do all in thoir power to mako tho occasion ploauaht and; pro?labloV r> ' 2. llailroad ratos on ?ho most rconomicul basis havo boon uc euroa. 3. M?BB Elizaboth C. Teague of Aiken. 8, C., bas boon appointed sponsor, and Miss Annio Norwood of Croonvillo, maid of honor, for tho division for tho ourront year. 4 All oamps, rogimonts and brigades of the division aro oarnostly requested to appoint, oaoh, ono eponaor and as many maids of honor aa thoy eco fit, A most boautiful and appreciated fea turo of our reunions has boon tho mingling of tho daughtors with tho old votorans, and it ia hoped that each or ganization will do itself tho honor of being roproaontod by a sponsor. Whon sponsors and maids aro ruooivod by tho eonvontion, oaoh will maroh in, carry mg tho oamp, regimental or brigado bannor. 5. Each oamp will ploaso bring its oamp bannor and oomo into tho con vention hall with tho samo. G. Tho Ladies' Oonfodorato Memorial association, pf Columbia, has askod tho division to participate in tho eolemn memorial horviooa of May 10th, and tho invitation has bcon aoooptod. Tho division, with its osoort, will move out to tho oomotory, whero tho tributo will bo paid to our dead. Dotaibi of tho parado will bo an nounood horcaftor. Capt, W. IX Star ling, tho oomtnandor of tho looal oamp, Hampton, No. 389 U. C. V , ia an nounced as grand marshal of tho pa rado. By order. C. Irvino Walker, Oommdr. S. C. Div., U C. V. .famos G. llolmos, Adjt. Con. Ohiof of Staff. N. B. Camps that havo not paid thoir duoB for two (2) or moro years aro not in "good standing," and aro nob on titled to dologatos. Tho following has also bcon issued by Gon. Walkor in rogard to tho goo oral reunion at Mora phis: Gen Ordor No. 53: 1 Tho 11th annual rounion ol' tho U. C. V , will bo held at Memphis, Tonn., May 28, 29 and 30, 1901. Dologatos from all tho oamps of this division aro oarnostly desirod to bo prosont. 2 Tho Sou thorn railway has bcon BO lcotod asthooffioial routo, and all ann rades aro askod to go by that routo and go togothor. Tho lotalls of tho hours of loaving varioua points have boon announced in general ordor No. 51 3. Tho oilioial trains of tho Southorn railway will roach Chattanooga, May 27, at 7 a. m.. and run down to tho Chiokamauga battlefield, so that tho oomrados will havo tho opportunity of participating in the un voling ocr orno nios of tho South Carolina monumont. 4. Tho South Carolina Chiokamauga Monumont commission havo extondod a cordial invitation to tho Votorans of tho South Carolina division U. C. V,, to partioipato in tho unvolling oiromo nies. . . By ordor, C. Irvine Walkor, Comer. S, 0. Div., U. C. V. Jamos G. llolmos, Adjt. Gon. Ohiof of Staff. Equalisation of Mill Taxes. Oomptrollor Gonoral Borham is going to work at onoo to got up tho returns on j cotton milli, ootton ?oed faotorlos and other property whioh oomoa under tho rooont Aot, whioh pr?vidos for equaliza tion of tho aSBOBBttient on ouoh propony by a Stato hoard, Ho wants tho roturns sont into his offioo at tho vory oarliost posslblo moinonfc and oxpoots ?to havo the Stato board moot hoto about tho 20th of May for tho purpose of) making ! the assessments. Mr. Borham''sont not! a oiioular lotter to that eltWt to all tho oounty offtoow, ) .>.* 3 plainly printed on every u arc taking when you take ;ir formula knowing that ye ?u knew what it contained, t up in correct proportions ai acts as a tonic while the ystem. Any reliable druggisl tfSnai and that all other i en tions. An analysis of othe perior to all others in cv ing when you take Grov? ving long been establishe ld throughout the entire i No Cure, No Pay. Price Revoked the Cominiesions. Wodnosdoy, Gov. MoSwoonoy issu ed a proclamation announoing that on and after J *nuary 1 next all oommis sions hold by commissioners of doods for South Carolina, issued prior to Jan* uary 1, 1896, will bo rovoked. Thono commissions aro hold at tho ploasuro of tho governor. Tho proclamation has boon itauod bco&uso of tho fact that thoro ie no offioial roooid as to Who aro oorornksionors of doods up to tho timo specified, and tho soorctary of stato finds it impossiblo to let anyono know who holds a ncinm?BB?on and who doos not. Thcso tfiioinls livo in other States and oountrios, and they aro frequontly eal led upon to probato papors that later on rcquiro ofiioial rtinordH. lt in in or der to obtain suoh a record that tho governor hts issued tho proolamation. Tho same thing was dono nomo years ago iu regard to tho notarios publie in tho State. Ho is Right. Tho ll v. John L So wall, pastor of tho First Congregational ohuroh in North Brookfield, Mass., has announood bo his ptrehionors that ho will aco?pt % rdduotion of 10 i or cont, of his sal try of $1,500 a year, inaimuoh an many )t tho congregation aro faoing a 10 per sent, rcduotion in their wt>gos owned tu tho local shoo shop. Crushed to Death. Bob Kelly, Dan Preston, Riobard attie and Cornolius Davis, nogro min ors, wcro killed at tho Sloss-Sheffiold No 2 oro mino Thursday by a fall of oro noar Birmingham, Ala. Tho men bad loadod 20 tons of oro, ard, think ing all of it had fallen, ontered tho mino. As soon as thoy wore in tho groat mass foll, crushing thom to dor .h. Steam Dyeing of every description. Bteam, Nap tua, French Dry and chemical cleansing. Bend for our new price list and oiroular. AU work guai anteed or no charge. 's Steam Dye Works 1810 Main Street COLUMBIA, S. C A. JU. Ortman, Proprietor ~ THE MO INDEED. 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